Collocations for shadow - noun

dark, dense, deep, strong
The house lay in dark shadow.

giant, long | grotesque, monstrous, sinister, strange, terrible | dancing, flickering

cast, make, produce, throw
The boat''s sail cast a shadow on the water. | Use a desk light to produce a strong shadow. | The candles on the table threw huge flickering shadows against the wall.

fill sth with ~s
The streets were now filled with terrible shadows.

emerge from, loom up out of, step out from/of ~s
Suddenly a huge figure loomed up out of the shadows.

move into, shrink into, slip (back) into ~s
She shrank back into the shadows as the footsteps approached.

lurk in, wait in, watch from
criminals lurking in the shadows

fall, lie
The evening shadows were beginning to fall. | Deep shadows lay across the small clearing where they sat.

get longer, lengthen
As the shadows lengthened, the men drifted home for their tea.

dance, leap, move, pass
the leaping shadows of the flames The shadows of the clouds passed over us.

among the ~s
an odd shape among the shadows

in the ~s
I could just make out a figure in the shadows.

into the ~s
I backed into the shadows until the police car had passed.

in ~
His face was in shadow.

into ~
The storm clouds threw the mountain peaks into dense shadow.

from/out of the ~s
A huge figure stepped out of the shadows.

through the ~s
the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the shadows

live in the shadow of sb/sth
(often figurative) She had always lived in the shadow of her older sister.